“I don’t anticipate anything like that,” Tustin said. “We do have some trespassing issues in Berlin.”

County staff and law enforcement are working on blocking access to the obsolete Berlin landfill, according to Tustin.

County solid waste engineering consultants will provide a remediation plan in four to five weeks, Tustin said.

The closed Snow Hill landfill also exhibited some methane issues.

The landfill shows less methane than during recent tests, according to Tustin, from seven exceedences out of 15 monitors, to three out of 15. The county continues to keep an eye on the situation there.

The Pocomoke landfill, also capped, has exhibited some minor amounts of methane, but county staff is not concerned.

”It’s not moving off the property at this time and we’re continuing to monitor that,” said Tustin.

These landfills are too small to host a methane plant like the one installed at the Central Landfill this year, which uses trash-generated methane to produce power, officials pointed out.